Monday, November 24, 2014

stop motion animation

Last month  we were asked to create and animate a live action stop-motion video, and i goined a group consisting of Andrew Stover, Laura Armstrong, Logan Keck, Jake Williamson, and myself.

We had originally had to have some sort of rising competition going on in between wizards until the tension rises to a climax and all hell breaks loose and then the wizards fight it out until either one or both lose.

We started with naming off ideas that we had until something stuck. well after naming off a bunch of random and pointless ideas, we had decided upon combining some of the ideas that we named. then we slimmed them down till the point in which we got Mage Wars. Then we sent Logan to put our ideas into pictures as we yelled them at him.


We then had to have some sort of rough idea to what we actually wanted to do.  at first we were kind of unsure about what we wanted to have for the shots. and since i didn't want to be an actor i ended up teaching both Logan and Andrew how to act out the scenes and choose many of the positions of the shots as we made them up. and with the collaborative efforts of five people who had absolutely no idea of what we were doing we ended up with a rough idea.

Rough:

From the rough we had decided to put the green screen room we had to use and started filming our project in there. Well we were idiots that hadn't anticipated that the awkward lighting and having reflective materials in a bright green room would have been a problem. After filming most of the project it most certainly was. we ended up having to start filming again with slight changes in costume, position and lighting.
from the time we started filming we had a kinda vague idea about how we should actually end this. So i suggested after whistling a bunch of western themes a straight up Western showdown in which both draw and end up disappearing and the then the camera switched to the audience in which both our wizards sat and applauded for a more comedic relief.
And from this we pretty much ended filming and moved on to digital editing removing the green screen and adding special effects and a new background.

Animation Part 1

Animation part 2



animation part 3



Animation final part





My Groupmates:
Andrew
Logan
Jake
Laura


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